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Harvard, California

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Newberry Springs-Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 92365. It stands on Harvard Hill. The Survey maps it on the Harvard Hill quadrangle.

Harvard within San Bernardino County

Then and now

1953 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harvard, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Harvard, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Harvard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 601 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictALVORD
9 August 1998Debris and open burning340 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictWARBONNET
17 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitBUSH
10 August 2005Natural53 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictMOJAVE
10 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitHACIENDA
10 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino UnitTAMI
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictHARVARD
31 July 1994Smokingunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitSPOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Harvard: 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay, Magnesite, Zeolites. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harvard HillsUraniumProspect
Mineola Bentonite/Zeolite DepositBentonite, ZeolitesProspect
Unnamed Manganese ProspectManganeseProspect
Unnamed ProspectMagnesiteProspect
Stacsite MineClayPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectClayProspect
Bentonite MineBentonitePast Producer
Bentonite ProspectBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite
Pink Lady Bentonite MineBentonitePast Producer
Stacsite MineBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvard in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023Flash FloodHarvard$1,000Interstate 15 flooded.
September 2023Flash FloodHarvard$1,000Hacienda Road was flooded.

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Manix4.3 miles15
Toomey4.8 miles13
Newberry Springs8.6 miles13
Yermo8.8 miles15
Minneola9.4 miles14
Bismarck (historical)10.4 miles15
Calico10.6 miles15
Gale11.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660729. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.